Lou Reed and Metallica recording new album?!

[hutch]

Didn't see that coming..

http://www.metallica.com/news/20110615_news.asp


I'll take anything to get Lou Reed recording again...

[James Ford]

Forget U2. Lou Reed/VU=most overrated of all time.

[hutch]

Forget U2. Lou Reed/VU=most overrated of all time.

I think your opinion is overrated.

[chaz]

Forget U2. Lou Reed/VU=most overrated of all time.

You're out of your mind.

[runwhiteyrun06]

Forget U2. Lou Reed/VU=most overrated of all time.

You're out of your mind.

I agree with Chaz.


So, I'm a huge Lou Reed fan.  He's definitely in my all time top 5 or so favorite artists. I'm not really sure how to feel about this. On one hand, Reed hasn't done a really rock album since 2000's Ecstasy so I'm excited for an album, but Metallica, really?  I don't think there's a single person on earth that saw this one coming.

[Jaguar]

Forget U2. Lou Reed/VU=most overrated of all time.

You're out of your mind.

3rd!

I'm much more a Velvet Underground fan than a Lou Reed fan but the man definitely has his moments and deserves some respect... even though his personality from many accounts puts him in a category where I'd prefer to admire his work from afar and avoid all personal contact with he himself.

[walkonby]

when i think velvet, i can't help to imagine what it would have been like to be at one of those warhol freak out shows.

i like lou reed, i hate lou reed.  i like metallica, i hate metallica.  it'll work.

[azaghal1981]

Metallica Machine Music

[StoneTheCrow]

I like VU but I can't stand Nico.

[Mobius]

They played together at that Rock and Roll hall of fame conert at MSG in 09.   It was ok.  Who doesn't like Lou Reed??

[RatBastard]

LR/VU I'd go to any time anywhere.  Metallica, almost as over rated as U2.  The sad part about Metallica is that the vocalist really can sing but he chooses to do that horrid raspy throat groaning crap that does not fit his voice at all.  Sounds like he is constipated and trying to push out a rock hard turd with all his might.  Especially on that song with the 'until he sleeps' line or whatever it is.

[James Ford]

My wife, for one.

Thank goodness I married a fox instead of a sheep.

Who doesn't like Lou Reed??

[Relaxer]

Ratbastard when you say "overrated" does that simply mean a band that millions of people love but you don't?

[James Ford]

Perhaps he is one of those millions of people who don't understand the meaning of the word "overrated".

Sometimes there will be a band who doesn't live up to the high regard that music geeks hold them up to. That to me is what overrated means.

While U2 and Metallica are beloved by millions, they're not held in particularly high regard by music geeks. Hence, they really can't be overrated.

Ratbastard when you say "overrated" does that simply mean a band that millions of people love but you don't?

[nkotb]

I'd second this.  Most people I know that LOVE U2 only think they're music geeks.  But I guess I can see RB's point...no way U2 should have as many fans as they have.  Metallica, too, especially with their post Black Album output.  Still, I'd turn the volume all the way up on Master of Puppets any day of the week...

While U2 and Metallica are beloved by millions, they're not held in particularly high regard by music geeks. Hence, they really can't be overrated.